Sachini Kavindya

2023-01-19. We always tell people to be where your audience is. Right now, 755 million people are on TikTok. smartocto spoke to Dutch journalist and well-known TikToker Marieke Kuypers about why the platform holds so much potential for newsrooms. And what you can do to be relevant. by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | January 30, 2023 By

2023-01-30. The Quint, The Hindu, Prothom Alo, Indian Express emerged as the 2022 South Asian Digital Media Awards winners, from more than 100 entries from news publishers across South Asia. by Vincent Peyrègne vincent.peyregne@wan-ifra.org | January 30, 2023 The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announced the winners of the South Asian Digital Media Awards

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Society for Civil Rights (GFF) have filed a second constitutional complaint in Germany against the Federal Intelligence Service Act (BND Act). Despite a revision of the law in spring 2021 both organisations hold that journalists are inadequately protected from surveillance by the BND, especially in their confidential communications with

Two journalists of the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper were found guilty of having revealed state secrets in the country ranked fifth in the World Press Freedom Index. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deeply regrets the conviction which risks further strengthening the self-censorship effect on journalists covering national security issues. In a trial unprecedented in Finland’s post-war history,

On July 25, 2021, as Tunisia grappled with months of political, sanitary and economic crises, Tunisian president Kaïs Saied suspended the parliament and dismissed the head of government. Saied utilized Article 80 of the 2014 Tunisian Constitution, which grants the president the power to take “the measures imposed by the state of emergency” in case

Five days after Cameroonian radio station director Martinez Zogo’s abduction, his body was found near the capital yesterday (22 January), bearing the signs of probable torture before he was killed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to do everything possible to identify those responsible and bring them to justice, and to protect journalists

The Islamic Republic of Iran has arrested three more women journalists, bringing the number of detained women journalists to 16, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) alerts. In total, 55 journalists have been arrested for media-related activities since the start of the Mahsa Amini protests in September. Twenty-seven of these journalists remain behind bars, while the others

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrest of four Chinese journalists following the protests against the zero-Covid policy in China and calls for the release of the two of them still detained. “By arresting and detaining four reporters for the simple fact of being present at the place of the protests, the Chinese regime has